t The 2015 Ram ProMaster City is
an upftted version of the Fiat Doblò,
which is produced by FIAT-Tofaş in a
3.6-million-ft
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plant in Bursa, Turkey.
One of the types of vehicles that is
becoming increasingly popular in the
U.S. but which has been something
of a stalwart among tradespeople in
Europe for quite some time is the light
commercial vehicle. For some reason,
Here's how the use of laser scanners on the ends of
horizontal measuring machines are allowing the Fiat
Doblò (and the Ram ProMaster City, which is based on
the Fiat) to be manufactured with accuracy.
Prove Fast and Accurate for
FIAT (and Ram) Van Production
LASERS
Turkey is a popular place to build
these vehicles. The previous-generation
Ford Transit Connect was produced at
the Ford Ososan Kocaeli Plant in that
country. The current-generation Fiat
Doblò, which comes to the U.S. as the
Ram ProMaster City, is produced by
FIAT-Tofaş in a manufacturing facility
in Bursa, Turkey. (The Ram is upftted
at the Chrysler Group Transformation
Center in Baltimore, incidentally.)
At the plant they are using two Hexagon
( hexagonmetrology.us ) DEA BRAVO
horizontal-arm coordinate measuring
machines (CMMs) that have a continuous-
wrist CW43 interface. They have been
retroftted with Nikon Metrology
( nikonmetrology.com ) XC65Dx-LS
Cross Scanners and DMIS-based CAMIO
multi-sensor metrology software.
One of the interesting attributes of the
laser scanner is that it scans the part
with not a single line of visible laser
light but with three stripes, thereby
quickly acquiring complete 3D geometry
of the features being measured.
Another feature of the Nikon laser
system is that it has "smart laser
intensity adaptation," which means that
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